Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11205] iEEE 802.11 dissector: Add a option for disable FCS

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Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 20:47:55 +0000

changed bug 11205


What Removed Added
Hardware x86 All
OS Windows 8.1 All

Comment # 2 on bug 11205 from 
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #1)
> So this option means "assume that packets have 4 bytes of junk at the end -
> don't treat it as an FCS that should be checked, and don't treat it as part
> of the packet data, either"?
> 
> (In the best of all possible worlds, Aruba would have a format that just
> adds a radiotap header:
> 
>     http://www.radiotap.org
> 
> at the beginning of each packet, sets the "frame includes FCS" flag:
> 
>     http://www.radiotap.org/defined-fields/Flags
> 
> for received packets, and doesn't set it for transmitted packets *and*
> doesn't put the extra 4 bytes at the end.)

I.e., this is separate from the existing preference to control whether to
assume there's an FCS at all.

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